Paul Fenech’s Housos gets second series on SBS
Fenech: Brain behind Housos
SBS has commissioned another series of nine episodes of Paul Fenech’s politically incorrect comedy Housos.
Production of the new series – set in a fictional housing commission block in Sunnyvale – starts in Sydney’s western suburbs on Monday.
The cast includes Encore columnist Jason ‘Jabba’ Davis, Habib Tahir, Melissa Tkautz, Amanda Keller and Angry Anderson. Narrator Ian Turpie passed away in March this year.
you know… this show rates well, has 75000 facebook likes, has incredibly passionate fans… good on them for getting a movie and another series up.
The success of this offering does not surprise me in the least. Though it is everything I hate and I would never wish for an epidemic of this kind of show, it nevertheless has two things which are sadly lacking in many, if not most, commercial offerings.
It has skilled production value (it is crafted rather than played to death) and it has heart (it knows why it exists and lives within its means and scope) and soul.
Too often shows are allowed to drift or free range until they lose themselves, too many producers are at odds with their directors or the directors are left to make something of a bunch of loose scripts and budget restraints. Often the cast is either cut adrift from the guide ship, or left to swim about in the hope of finding a life boat.
I congratulate the entire cast and production team of Housos
Its Tahir Bilgiç, and mellissa said via twitter this morning that she isn’t returning for the second season (and most probably, not the film either)